Interior Design Books
Modern Bathrooms
Modern Bathrooms is a gorgeous full-color home design and photography reference book that catalogs more than 200 unique bathroom design ideas that will completely transform your bathroom's aesthetic. The book's 500 and more photographs are categorized into six design themes to suit your particular needs - natural, smart, luxury, space-efficient, bare-essential, and open and ensuite bathrooms.
Interior Urbanism: Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America
Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside.' Interior Urbanism explores the roots of this contemporary tension between inside and outside, identifying and analyzing the concept of interior urbanism and tracing its history back to the works of John Portman and Associates in 1960s and 70s America.
Form and Structure in Interior Architecture
Form and Structure in Interior Architecture examines the basic ideas that underpin the design of interior space: From the establishment of a relationship between the existing building and the new components that inhabit it, to the design and positioning of significant elements within the space itself. Through a series of groundbreaking case studies from around the world, this book proposes a method of analysis, understanding and exploitation of the existing building.
Infinite Space: Contemporary Residential Architecture and Interiors
Interior design, architecture, and spectacular views of sweeping landscapes. James Silverman's images underline the harmony of perfectly composed juxtapositions of built structures and natural landscapes. Collected in our new book Infinite Space, these photographs also show how this balance has established itself as a key precept of contemporary architecture around the world.
The Other Office 2
The Other Office 2 features 80 cutting-edge offices from around the globe. Peek inside the offices of tech and finance firms, creative agencies and media outfits, and public services and co-working providers, such as Airbnb, Google, Rabobank and Wieden+Kennedy.
The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes
This Monocle book tells us how to turn a house into a home. Both a practical guide and a great source of inspiration, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes presents the interiors, furniture, and locations you need to know about along with portraits of the people who can make it happen.
Japan Living: Form
Japan Living presents thirty exceptional houses that transcend function and resonate with spirit. Crisp, sharp, transparent and light-these new designs represent a new burst in creativity over the past decade. Many reflect changes in the dynamics of Japanese society, while others represent self-expression and individuality.
Living Under the Sun: Tropical Interiors and Architecture
Living Under the Sun is a comprehensive showcase of modern tropical interiors and architecture that merges local design tradition with bold innovation in compelling ways. Throughout Living Under the Sun, breezy abodes embrace their outdoor surroundings to offer fresh and surprising indoor possibilities that are ideally suited to their environments. The elegantly easy-going work exemplifies how to create tranquil settings to soothe our hectic lives, regardless of our geographical location.
101 Hotel Baths & Spas
Inspired by the momentum for holistic approaches to health, wellbeing, relaxation and fitness, 101 Hotel Baths & Spas by interior architecture specialists Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk and Peter Joehnk explores a variety of bathrooms and spas within evolving hotel environments. Striking photos, renderings, hand sketches, floorplans, and perspective drawings throughout the book's 232 pages illustrate numerous possibilities for designing relaxing retreats with special appeal.
Apartment Therapy Complete and Happy Home
From a "house hunters cheat sheet" and a "moving day check list" to visual design inspirations and DIY home improvement hacks, the book provides readers with all of the tools needed to find, make and maintain a fabulous home. Apartment Therapy: Complete + Happy Home is co-authored by Apartment Therapy founder and design guru, Maxwell Ryan and the site's executive editor, Janel Laban.
Kitchen Kulture: Interiors for Cooking and Private Food Experiences
At home, the kitchen is where the best parties end, the wildest affairs begin, food trends are set, small culinary businesses are founded and the perfect strangers of a supper-club are catered to. Kitchen Kulture is an insightful survey of new, established, and unconventional ideas in contemporary kitchen design. From small-scale multifunctional cupboard kitchens to expansive living and cooking environments, the book features kitchens that are as individual and charismatic as the personalities that use them.
Let's Go Out Again: Interiors for Restaurants, Bars, and Unusual Food Places
Let's Go Out Again shows how interior designers combine at times unusual ingredients to arrive at a tasteful setting for a range of culinary tastes and occasions. Chefs on sabbatical, for example, are given a creative boost at a restaurant Numero 7 in Morocco. In a historical hotel in Sweden, the designers from Stylt Trampoli have created Gotthards Krog by melding plush with the raw history of a mariner. Casa Negra in the Shoreditch district of northeast London not only serves Mexican fare, but also couples Mexican style with British Townhouse elements. The scope of the eateries presented in this book includes classic and unusual restaurant concepts as well as organic food markets, open-air cooking events, and experimental supper clubs that cater only to registered guests.
Light Meal Restaurant
Light Meal Restaurant features the best and newest restaurants in the most famous museums and theatres around the world. All the restaurants are designed by renowned designers and expressed by abundant photographs, drawings and delicate words.
Best of Education and Culture Architecture & Design
The Best of Education and Culture Architecture & Design 2014 is a must-have for the design community immersed in the culture and those looking for a valuable resource on the best work in education and culture design today. The book recognizes superior design in the broad reaching and exciting world of design connected to those arenas, and shares that with the design universe.
Houses Now: Material Style
Houses Now: Material Style is a chic, modern book that showcases an eclectic range of contemporary homes, designed by an impressive selection of architects. Honing in on the variety and quality of materials used, Houses Now also explores the finer details of architectural styles from across the globe-from suburban masterpieces and sprawling country homes, to sleek city residences and breathtaking beach houses.
Corporate Interiors: Basics, Components, Examples
Corporate Interiors: Basics, Components, Examples features the most important premisses for the conception of interiors and gives a general overview of the topic with more than 100 examples. It contains detailed presentations including plans and projects in the following fields: retail/shop/stores, hotels/ gastronomy/leisure/education, office and manufacturing.
The Big Book of Interior Design
Featuring an array of dwellings selected from around the world - from the glass skyscrapers of Saint Petersburg, to the buildings of Rome, to the sunny shores of California - The Big Book of Interior Design is entirely devoted to the harmonious relationships between the many design elements that populate and inter-connect our private spaces.
Japanese Interior Design
Japanese Interior Design showcases a wide variety of takes on the recurring theme of the hotel room. The selection of projects covers the broadest possible spectrum: redesigning the interior of historic grand hotels, creative solutions for budget hotels as well as prize wining design hotels.
Room: Inside Contemporary Interiors
Room: Inside Contemporary Interiors explores a curated selection of exceptional spaces, ranging from retail concept stores, pop-up dining experiences, and art installations, to hotels and private residences. Richly illustrated with extensive and never-before-published photographs, illustrations, floor plans, and construction details, as well as in-depth texts exploring each project and its impact, Room takes readers from the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn to Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral in New Zealand, stopping at Evernote's Redwood City offices, a unique Sao Paulo loft, the Paul Smith store in London, a bamboo‐and‐thatch bar in Vietnam, and more outstanding spaces along the way.
Home Style by City: Ideas and Inspiration from Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Copenhagen
Home Style by City captures the essense of five design-forward cities, featuring gorgeously decorated homes from each that reflect local style and inspire internationally.
Libraries
Libraries is a visual exploration of how cultures around the world have responded to the impulse to protect and interact with the written word; for the story of the human experience is told not only in the books on a library's shelves, but also in its architecture. Lavishly illustrated with stunning photography, readers are invited into the most ornate libraries, lauded universities and innovative design works on earth; the mannerist and the ultra-modern, the opulent and the austere.
Small Interiors: Creative Solutions
Small Interiors features a variety of beautifully-illustrated case studies of small interiors ingeniously designed to maximize their limited space. These homes are streamlined inside and out, with dozens of never-before-seen solutions in storage and an array of innovative, multi-purpose design solutions for furniture and fixtures in homes where space is a limited commodity.
Corporate Interiors 12
The 12th edition of Corporate Interiors showcases how business leaders along with their architects and interior designers successfully provide these state-of-the-art facilities for their management and staff. With 100's of full-color images and insightful text, this book offers an effective means of assessing options for planning, designing and building these workspaces.
Total Design: Architecture and Interiors of Iconic Modern Houses
Celebrating the ultimate masterpieces of modernist design, from the Arts and Crafts movement up to the twenty-first century, Total Design offers an intimate tour of houses conceived as complete works of art. Each of the spectacular houses making up Total Design demonstrates how an architect realized a unifying vision through all aspects of design - architecture, furniture, fittings, decorative objects, color, and gardens.
Interior Design Review 18
Volume 18 of the Interior Design Review once again features the designers who have won over the renowned jury with their work. The broad sweep of exemplary interiors represents an extraordinary variety of international design - brought to life with lush, glossy photos.
Modern Country
Country living is associated with a relaxed, more informal way of life, and the houses in Modern Country reflect that way of life, in an up-to-date and relevant way. Modern Country explores some of the most exciting and interesting examples of the contemporary in French interior design, exploring homes in the mountains, by the sea, and in deepest parts of the countryside.
Night Fever 4
Night Fever 4 takes a grand global tour of the best in hospitality design. The 560-page book delves into the design concepts for some of the world's top destinations to drink, dine and dream, offering a detailed look at the cutting-edge approach of their creators. From bijou bars and small eateries to multi-level clubs and luxurious hotels, the projects are divided into three sections: Drink, Eat and Sleep. Over 130 interiors are revealed that have been realized within the last 3 years by young studios and world-renowned design firms, including Estudio Campana, Ippolito Fleitz Group, Marcel Wanders studio, Ministry of Design and Pinkeye.
The Interior Design Productivity Toolbox
Design is only part of an interior designer's job-you're also responsible for scheduling client meetings, conducting design surveys, creating drawings and specs, and overseeing installation. Multiply by the number of projects on your plate, and you have a recipe for overwhelming disorganization. The Interior Design Productivity Toolbox helps you juggle multiple projects with ease, with a comprehensive self-management system tailored to the needs of interior designers and decorators.
Paris' Designers and Their Interiors
Paris' Designers and Their Interiors features some of the most stylish interiors from young up-and-coming interior designers living in Paris. Imaginative use of limited space transforms even the smallest apartments into very contemporary living spaces that work on many levels. All the designs are completely original, offering a fresh take on city living; ranging from minimalist, to functional, to family-friendly, to cool and chic; all reflect their own unique personality and identity.
101 Hotel Lobbies, Bars & Restaurants
101 Hotel Lobbies, Bars & Restaurants explores public spaces in hospitality venues through examples drawn from the diverse international portfolio which JOI-Design, their Hamburg-based studio, has built in its 30-year history. Numerous photos, renderings, sketches, floorplans, and perspective drawings throughout the book's 232 pages depict innovative ideas for hoteliers, architects, interior designers, investors, developers and students alike.